MARY Tullo, who has died aged 83, had a great love of music and sport.
She sang in the Oxford Bach Choir for many years and was a keen hockey player, cricketer and golfer.
She was captain and later president of the Oxford Ladies Golf Club, based at the Southfield course in East Oxford.
She was wicketkeeper and a steady batsman with the Oxford Women's Cricket Club, which practised at the Dragon School and played on various council pitches.
She also played hockey for the Oxford Etceteras Club.
Miss Tullo, of Banbury Road, Oxford, came to the city from her native Ireland during the Second World War to help the war effort.
She became secretary to consultants at the Radcliffe Infirmary and later helped run the League of Friends' shop and caf at the hospital.
Miss Tullo, who died on Monday, was also a keen supporter of the Oxford-Leiden twin city link and was minutes secretary for a time.
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